Kirk Varnedoe, 57, a noted art historian and a faculty member
in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies,
died August 14 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New
York following a long battle with cancer.

Prior to his
appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study in January 2002,
he served for 13 years as chief curator of painting and sculpture
at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA in 1985,
he was a tenured full professor at the Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University. He previously taught at Columbia Law School,
Columbia University, Stanford University, and Williams College,
and served as the Slade Professor of Art History at Oxford University,
Christensen Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University, and the
Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C.

Born in Savannah, Ga., John Kirk Train Varnedoe earned
a bachelor's degree in 1967 from Williams College, and a doctorate
in 1972 from Stanford University.

"Kirk Varnedoe's
distinguished scholarly record is notable for its exceptional
range and for its pioneering role in key areas," said Phillip
A. Griffiths, director of the Institute for Advanced Study. "His
work has repeatedly been at the forefront of the history of modern
art, and his numerous publications have reshaped and opened up
a variety of fields within art history."

Dr. Varnedoe organized
more than a dozen major exhibitions, both for MoMA and for other
institutions. His credits included, at MoMA, "Van Gogh's Postman:
The Portraits of Joseph Roulin" (2001); "Open Ends: Eleven Exhibitions
of Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now" (2001, with Paola Antonelli
and Joshua Siegel); "Jackson Pollock" (1999, with Pepe Karmel);
"Jasper Johns: A Retrospective" (1997); "Cy Twombly: A Retrospective"
(1995); "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" (1990,
with Adam Gopnick); "Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design"
(1986); and "Primitivism' in 20th Century Art: Affinity
of the Tribal and the Modern" (1984, with William Rubin).

His publications on European and North American art of the 19th
and 20th centuries "display a gift not only for rethinking
large movements and ideas," said Professor Glen Bowersock, an
Institute faculty member, "but also for close analysis of individual
works of art. His scholarship has been instrumental in bringing
marginal and neglected artists into the center of debate and in
opening or reshaping entire fields of inquiry."

His
many contributions to the discipline of art history began in 1972,
when after a three-year period of research in Paris, mainly on
the drawings of Rodin, his doctoral dissertation provided not
only the first sound chronology of Rodin's drawings, but also
the first critical examination of the epidemic problem of forgeries
of the later drawings. He succeeded in identifying the forgers,
and provided the first criteria for discriminating between the
authentic and inauthentic drawings.

After completing his
doctoral work, he turned to a new question: the seemingly incongruous
overlaps of Realism and Symbolism in European art after 1860.
This research resulted in his influential reevaluation of the
then little-known Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte.

A
year of research in Paris in 1977-78 allowed him to turn his attention
to the history of photography. In subsequent articles, he examined
the question of the influence of photography on Impressionist
painting, effectively countering many prevailing ideas about the
impact of photography on Monet, Degas, Caillebotte, and others.

From 1984 to 1990, he made a series of contributions related to
the political and ethical implications of western artists' engagement
with non-western art. In 1984 he co-organized, with William Rubin,
a MoMA exhibition, "Primitivism in 20th Century Art," which explored
the expressive power of art created by cultures then called "primitive."

He was the author of Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture, and Design
(1986), Northern Light: Nordic Painting at the Turn of the Century
(1988), A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern (1990),
High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (1990), and a series
of books on major North American painters of the post-War era,
including Cy Twombly (1994), Jasper Johns (1996), and Jackson
Pollock (1998). The book on Jackson Pollock, written with Pepe
Karmel, was awarded the Alfred Barr Prize by the College Art Association
as well as the Henry Allen Moe Prize awarded by the New York State
Historical Association.

A fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences since 1993, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship in 1984, a Knighthood of the Royal Order of Donnebroge
(Denmark) in 1983 and a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship in 1977, among other honors. He was also an Officier
of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a Member of the American
Philosophical Society, a trustee of the National Humanities Center,
a member of the steering committee of The New York Public Library's
Center for Scholars and Writers, and the recipient of two honorary
degrees.

He is survived by his wife, the sculptor Elyn
Zimmerman.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction
of the Frank E. Campbell Home in Manhattan. A Memorial Service
will be held in New York in September.

Armand
Borel

Armand Borel, 80, an internationally recognized
mathematician whose work was fundamental to the development and
formation of modern mathematics, died August 11 in Princeton.
Prof. Borel was a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced
Study, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1957.

Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, he received his diploma
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1947
and his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1952. He served
as an assistant and professor (1955-57; 1983-86) at the Swiss
Federal Institute. He went to the Centre Nationale de la Recherche
Scientifique in Paris in 1949, and then to the University of Geneva
as a Professor of Algebra in 1950. From 1952 to 1954 he was a
member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced
Study, and, in 1957, was appointed a professor. He became professor
emeritus in 1993.

In 1991, he received the American Mathematical
Society's Steele Prize for lifelong contributions to mathematics.
The award citation noted that Prof. Borel's work "provided
the empirical base for a great swath of modern mathematics, and
his observations pointed out the structures and mechanisms that
became central concerns of mathematical activity."

His
mathematical work centered on the theory of Lie groups. Because
of the increasingly important place of this theory in the whole
of mathematics, Prof. Borel's work came to influence some of the
most important developments of contemporary mathematics. His first
great achievement was to apply to Lie groups and homogenous spaces
the techniques of algebraic topology developed by Leray, Cartan,
and Steenrod. In 1992, he received the International Balzan Prize
for Mathematics "for his fundamental contributions to the theory
of Lie groups, algebraic groups and arithmetic groups, and for
his indefatigable action in favor of high quality in mathematical
research and of the propagation of new ideas."

He served
as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, and as a
visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, the University
of Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, the University
of Chicago, Yale University, and Tohoku University in Sendai,
Japan. In 1972, he received an honorary doctorate from the University
of Geneva, and in 1978 was awarded the Brouwer Medal of the Dutch
Mathematical Society.

A member of numerous scientific societies,
he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1976 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987. He was also
a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters,
the French Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society,
and Academia Europaea; and was an Honorary Fellow of the Tata
Institute for Advanced Study.

A music lover, Prof. Borel
initiated a concert series at the Institute in 1985, and directed
the program through 1992. He also loved nature and wildlife, and
until his recent illness was an active hiker.

He is survived
by his wife, Gabrielle; and two daughters, Dominique Borel and
Anne Borel, both of New York City.

Born in Sewickley, Pa.,
he attended Sewickley Academy, The Kent School, and Princeton
University, Class of 1940. While at Princeton, he was president
of Tiger Inn and the Nassau Club. He was a lifelong supporter
of the University.

During World War II, he served with distinction
as a forward air observer with the First Armored Division in the
North African Theatre and in Italy. He was awarded the Silver
Star for heroism during the Battle of Anzio.

Following
military service, he served as president of Roxbury Carpet Co.,
Framingham, Mass., before returning to Princeton University to
work in the Development and Planning Office. He retired from RBC
Dain Rauscher in December, 2000. He served on the board of directors
of Westminster Choir College.

He is survived by his wife
of 61 years, Marian ("Miney"); four daughters, Lainey Anderson
of Cambridge, Mass., Cynthia Anderson of Sausalito, Calif., Meg
Ryan of Seattle, Wash., and Christine Anderson of Princeton Junction;
a son, Duncan of Cary, N.C.; a sister, Allison Vulte of Coronado,
Calif.; and eight grandchildren.

A memorial service will
be held at 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 24 at Princeton University
Chapel, with The Rev. Sue Anne Steffey Morrow officiating. A reception
will follow at 6 p.m. at Windrows, 2000 Windrows Drive.

In
lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Westminster
Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton 08540.

Arrangements
are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

Henry
Hemmendinger

Henry Hemmendinger, 88, of Princeton,
died August 16 at home. He was a widely recognized authority on
color science.

Born in Bernardsville, he studied at Harvard
and Princeton Universities. He received a Ph.D. in astronomy from
Princeton in 1939 under the direction of Henry Norris Russell.

His career as a physicist working in color measurement, specification,
and control spanned the last half-century, first in a partnership,
Davidson and Hemmendinger, and later as a consultant operating
Hemmendinger Color Lab from his home. He was a member of international
committees and the recipient of numerous honors, most recently
the Godlove Award of the lnter-Society Color Council.

In
addition to his scientific work he was a passionate gardener who
created a small oasis at his home. He was interested in plant
propagation and worked with a local garden club on the cultivation
of the rare blue gentian flower.

He was predeceased by
his first wife Miriam; a daughter, Carol Selikowitz; and his long-time
companion Sylvia Crane. He is survived by two sons, David of Schenectady,
N.Y., and Mark of Mill Valley, Calif.; two brothers; and five
grandchildren.

There will be a memorial service at his
home at 2 p.m. on September 6.

Memorial contributions
may be made to the Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway,
New York, N.Y. 10012; or The Nature Conservancy, 425 North Fairfax
Drive, Arlington, Va. 22203.

Catherine
Holland

Catherine Lightfoot Holland, 91, of
Chesapeake, Va., died August 14 at Georgian Manor Assisted Living
Facility in Chesapeake. She lived in Princeton from 1993 to 1998.

Born in Richmond, Va., one of 12 children, she moved with her
family to Philadelphia in 1915. She left Princeton in 1998 to
live in Virginia with her son and daughter-in-law.

She
was a cook, seamstress and crafter until failing eyesight and
declining health intervened. Her skills were evident in the sweaters,
afghans, tablecloths and bedspreads she gave her friends and relatives.

She served in the Nurses' Guild and sang in church choirs. In
Princeton she was a member of the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian
Church, where she was active in the weekly Bible study and prayer
group, and the Chime Choir.

Wife of the late Robert Holland
Sr., she is survived by two sons, Robert Jr. of Chesapeake, Va.,
and Donald of Philadelphia; a daughter, Barbara Cooper of Princeton;
three grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

The funeral
will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 23, at New Hope Baptist Church
in Suffolk, Va.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to New Hope Baptist Church, 4260 Pughsville Road,
Suffolk, Va.

Miriam
S. Riskin

Miriam Steinberg Riskin, 82, of Princeton,
died of cancer on August 14 at home.

Before moving to Princeton
she was a teacher of Spanish in Highland Park and Great Neck,
N.Y., and a resident of Rumson.

She is survived by two
sons, Steven of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Kenneth of Newport, Ore.;
a brother, Malcolm of Princeton; and three grandchildren.